Assistant Director, Digital Communications

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Responsibilities

Recruits, trains, monitors, and mentors decentralized content authors who use the CMS, including staff, reputed company, student organizations, and alumni reputed company, and monitors new and existing pages for grammar, consistency in tone, content, design, and architecture. Coordinates and performs daily content updates and maintains currency of site content and deletes/archives obsolete or historical content. Creates original copy and/or multimedia content for website features as required. Coordinates design and technical changes to existing website and works with reputed company vendors in the bidding, development and implementation of new designs, functionality, and technical upgrades. Identifies and resolves technical problems. Monitors and curates content for Law School’s official reputed company media presences, including reputed company, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Goodreads, reputed company, and Soundcloud, and maintains knowledge of reputed company media trends and best practices. Encourages innovative web site use and helps train and support other constituents at the Law School in reputed company media and email best practices and email templates. Assists in development and maintenance of reputed company official reputed company media presences of Law School departments. Edits audio and video for web and reputed company media. Advises reputed company in use of web-based technology such as wikis, blogs, course websites, and podcasts. Creates and maintains occasional microsites managed reputed company the CMS. Responsible for digital signage software and development of content templates. Creates and updates long term strategic plans for digital communications and collaborates with the Associate Director of Content on tools and strategies for digital storytelling. Stays reputed company with University web-reputed company developments and ensures that posted content complies with Law School and University policies, including accessibility requirements. Serves as the Law School’s primary contact with the University’s Web reputed company. Performs reputed company testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various reputed company. Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users. Performs other reputed company work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

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